intolérant

\ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\

/\ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“intolérant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,519
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque de tolérance, qui ne veut souffrir aucune autre opinion que la sienne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-intolerant · intolérant · French

intolérant · rank #44,519 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,519
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH interventionn…

Nearest frequency peer: interventionnisme (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « intolérant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « intolérant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

intolérant vs intolérants
91% similar
intolérant vs intolérance
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for intolérant
PropertyValue
Headwordintolérant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#44,519
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intolérant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).intolérantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « interventionnisme » (#44,518), « intersyndicale » (#44,517), « invaincue » (#44,521). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « intolérant » est au #44,519. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around intolérant (IPA \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,519 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for intolérant, with forms such as "inntolérant", "inotlérant", and "intloérant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "intolérants", "intolérance", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intolérant, spelled I-N-T-O-L-É-R-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui manque de tolérance, qui ne veut souffrir aucune autre opinion que la sienne.
  2. 2
    Qui n'accepte pas de concurrent, de rival.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how intolérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Affichant non sans panache un athéisme militant, il appelle à en finir avec une certaine tolérance envers les religions monothéistes, intrinsèquement intolérantes et pétries de haine.
  2. Quitte à devenir la cible des extrémistes postfreudiens inféodés et des fanatiques antipsychanalyse, tous si prompts à caricaturer et si intolérants.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inntolérant
  • inotlérant
  • intloérant
  • intolerant
  • intollérant
  • intolréant
  • intoléarnt
  • intolérannt
  • intolérantt
  • intolératn
  • intolérnat
  • intolérrant
  • intoélrant
  • inttolérant
  • itnolérant
  • nitolérant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intolérant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

inntolérant1inotlérant2intloérant2intolerant1intollérant1intolréant2intoléarnt2intolérannt1
Edit distance from "intolérant"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intolérant"?
"intolérant" is spelled I-N-T-O-L-É-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "intolérant" mean?
As an adjective, "intolérant" means: Qui manque de tolérance, qui ne veut souffrir aucune autre opinion que la sienne.
What words are commonly confused with "intolérant"?
"intolérant" is commonly confused with "intolérants", "intolérance". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intolérant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intolérant" is \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intolérant" come from?
"intolérant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intolérant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list